We’re leaving for D.C. tonight, to spend three days at Erik’s place, exploring Our Nation’s Capital And Other Capitalized Concepts As Well (like Drinking and Walking and Stuff).
I’m not sure what it says about my frame of mind – i.e. out of it – that this was all I could think to tell you, and basically what I’m really doing is asking for ideas of what you absolutely love to do in D.C., cannot resist doing in D.C., public acts of lewdness excepted.
Sitting in Lincoln’s lap, however, is an acceptable suggestion.
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Lunch at the counter at Eastern Market (great crab cakes w/cole slaw), then poking around the neighboring flea market. If you have access to a car, the giant statue (Awakening) at the end of Hains Point is something most tourists don’t see.
Heeeeeeeey you beat me to it.
Drive another 90 miles down 29S to Charlottesville, home of my alma mater, the University of Virginia. Check into the Boar’s Head Inn for a night. Eat in their restaurant, ESPECIALLY BREAKFAST. This time of the year the grounds of the University are at their peak, and you will have a much better sense of Jefferson than you get at the thing near the Potomac in his honor.
If you don’t have time to do this, throw an egg at any random limousine leaving the White House and hope you get lucky.
there is a fabulous tapas restaurant called Zaytinia and its not too far from the Spy Museum.
I highly recommend Julia Child’s kitchen at the Smithsonian.
Eastern Market is indeed great. Also try some soul food up on U Street (I just ate at Oohh’s and Aahh’s on 10th and U and am still blissed out a day later), check out the Asian art festival at the Freer and Sackler on Saturday and have a cocktail at Zola, the bar and restaurant next door to the Spy Museum. And please trust me when I say to stay away from Georgetown after 8 PM, unless you feel like crashing a frat party.
If you like beer, then The Brickskeller in Dupont Circle is premium. Also the National Museum of the American Indian is quite nice, and their cafe is perfect for lunch.
De-lurking to say…welcome to my stomping grounds!
The Market Inn on E Street in SW has the best crabcakes in town, bar none, and you can’t leave DC w/o having some crabcakes! Also, if you’re going to do a Georgetown tour (and you should), you might as well stop by Clyde’s for their juicy yummy burgers. Mmm…meat…
Politics and Prose on Connecticut Avenue (Van Ness is the closest Metro) is THE bookstore to go to…there’s always an author reading, and when you finish stocking up, you can go downstairs for a great mocha. And then of course, the Freer Gallery for Whistler’s Peacock Room, an exhibit on NY photos at the National Gallery, action-packed taxidermy at the Natural History Museum and daredevil pigeons at the Spy Museum. Geek it up, tourists! =)
When I was little I LOVED the air and space museum. They have rockets there that you can walk through with life sized astronaut dolls. And the gift shop sold space ice cream! How cool is that?